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Updated: June 9, 2025
He's far too sharp in the eye and black in the temper, and too much of Clan Donallachd generally, to be trusted with the lives and liberties of seven gentlemen of a tartan he must know unfriendly to Glencoe.
The men busy themselves yoking the oxen; they are dressed in bright silks and cottons, several have M'Pherson tartan putsoes.
"Is there any one who has been brought up at Dare who is likely to be ashamed of the tartan! When I am ashamed of the tartan I will put a pigeon's feather in my cap, as the new suaicheantas of this branch of Clann Leoid. But then, my good Janet, I would as soon think of taking my rifle and the dogs through the streets of London as of wearing the kilts in the south." The old lady paid no heed.
"Still still," said Count Victor, "one hesitates to mention it to so excellent a custodian of the family reputation still there are other things to me somewhat somewhat crepuscular." His deprecatory smile and the gesture of his hands and shoulders conveyed his meaning. "Ye're thinkin' o' the Baron in tartan," said Mungo, bluntly. He smiled oddly. "That's the funniest bit of all.
But I went with the clan in the year 'Forty-five. The men marched with swords and firelocks, and some of them in brigades in the same set of tartan; they were not backward at the marching, I can tell you. And there were gentlemen from the Low Country, with their tenants mounted and trumpets to sound, and there was a grand skirling of war-pipes.
Her tartan screen served all the purposes of a riding-habit and of an umbrella; a small bundle contained such changes of linen as were absolutely necessary. Barefooted, as Sancho says, she had come into the world, and barefooted she proposed to perform her pilgrimage; and her clean shoes and change of snow-white thread stockings were to be reserved for special occasions of ceremony.
Plain practical man of affairs that I am, I come back to the blessed prairies for my inspiration as the tartan warmed up the heart of Argyle. Sweeter to me than the salt sea spray, the fragrance of summer rains; Nearer my heart than the mighty hills are the wind-swept Kansas plains.
"The Macleod tartan?" said the eldest sister, demurely. "And what if it were the Macleod tartan?" "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Gerty!
Here the elevation of the ice had gone on increasing, until the schooner and the tartan had been uplifted to a height of 150 feet, not only rendering them quite inaccessible, but exposing them to all but certain destruction in the event of a thaw.
She wore the tartan plaid of her country, adjusted so as partly to cover her head, and partly to fall back over her shoulders.
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